Quillback

About 6" here, might get another 2-3 today. Fortunately not much in the way of freezing rain yesterday and the power is still on.

HAHA, I'm not going to be fishing on the 10th, 6 degrees in the AM is a little too cold for me.

Good analysis, I recorded it and skipped through quite a bit, but my first impression of Mizzou is good guard play, but not a strong inside game from the bigs.

That's going to seem balmy compared to what we'll see for the next week.

Yeah I would think if they beat WV and UCLA they have a shot at being ranked. Just looked at the RPI rankings - U Mass is #1. Arkansas is ranked #18, top ranked in the SEC, but I don't expect that to last long. http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/rpi

Since it's going to be cold, windy, and have various types of frozen water falling from the sky, I'm sure the fishing will be on fire today. No freaking way I'll be out there however.

Good on you LittleRed - some of my best friends I have met through fishing.

All my color choices are bad, I think I've had maybe 2 good days on those doggone spinner baits. Sure is fun though when they're biting them.

They're shutting down the Columbia for sturgeon? Say it ain't so.

I think I got the date wrong in the title.

Thanks, I will check them out.

Or is he talking about this?

I just placed an order with the Zig Jig company owner. I'm going to get 3 dozen 1/8 and 3 dozen 1/16. He saying that if the river remains low the 1/16 will work the best. He's going to make up an order of various colors that he recommends. Some of you guys are bringing boats and some are bringing food, so this will be my contribution to the cause.

Muddy - I just talked to the guy at Zig Jigs and he can get an order out today, he's got them in stock - but with the storm coming in we need to get them ordered today. I can get 4 dozen 1/8 and split them with you - what colors? If I don't hear form you soon, I'll just get some olive ones/ brown orange/ white gray.

Tulsa - Not a bad place to live for a fisherman, quite a few reservoirs within an hour or two. Stripers in the Arkansas river also.

Took a look at ordering some of those jigs - they want a $44.00 minimum order. I don't need 4 dozen of them - I'll try and pick some up at Cranfield.

Yep the date is still a ways out, weather could be different from the forecast. When I talked to the Rileys a few weeks ago, they wanted to be called a few days before we show up so that we can tell them how many are coming. So I'm thinking that next Tuesday we should get a poll of who is going for sure.

Not that I know her personally, but supposedly she is a huge sports fan. And, again supposedly, very knowledgeable about college FB. I'm more worried about the "Homer" people on the committee - Archie Manning for example.

Sounds like the way it's been on Table Rock lately.

After finding a bit of a bite Sunday late in the day, I though I had things figured out - but I was wrong. Worked hard to get 10 bass, only 2 keepers. Fishing a Zoom Centipede Texas rigged with a 3/16 oz weight in water that was 10-25 feet deep off steep banks produced the most bites. Got a bit of a breeze for about an hour and threw a crank bait for a bit and picked up a couple of 12" bass doing that. Talked to another guy that came in the same time I did, and he had about the same results as me. With this cold front coming in, it will probably be a couple of weeks until I get out to the Rock again. I need to get over to Swepco also. There should start to be a good jerk bait bite here on the Bella Vista lakes after this cold front moves on. My trolling motor batteries are just about done, I hate buying new batteries.

The Arkansas AD is the head of the committee! I expect to see Arkansas in the playoff next year even with a 4-8 record. This committee thing should be a hoot, it will be like when the Cardinals select a new Pope. The committee will probably be sequestered in a locked down environment for however long it takes to figure out the top 4, after a few days of drama, a little puff of smoke will come out of the chimney and they will announce to the world the 4 teams for the playoffs.

I've been on the Auburn campus, had a software install job there about 6 years ago. This was before the sacred tree was killed by that Alabama nut fan. During lunch one day, the Auburn people that I was working with took me to see the tree and talked about the Auburn football tradition - these people are brainwashed. Arkansas still had a decent football team then, so I wasn't embarrassed when talking SEC football with them. I got the impression that Auburn is a football program first and a place for learning a distant 2nd.

Welcome Bushman - I lived in North Bend for close to 20 years before moving here and I also miss the salmon and steelhead fishing, but I like the bass fishing down here. I can't help you out with any Kansas fishing advice, but if you're ever down here in NW Arkansas give me a holler and maybe we can get out and fish for some of the bass around here.

I was getting a little worried about the weather, if we were talking teens to 20's in the mornings I probably would not go, but for right now it's looking like Friday will have a high of 42 or so. If that holds true then I still plan on coming.

We just need Michigan State to beat OSU, then whoever wins the SEC will play FSU for the NC and it will make perfect sense. If OSU wins and Auburn wins then it looks like we'd have OSU play FSU with an Auburn team that had beaten the #1 and #5 teams in consecutive weeks locked out of the NC. That would just be plain wrong. That being said, I want the NC game to be between Mizzou and FSU.